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As someone who was born and raised in Alaska, I want to address some misconceptions about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Many people believe that developing ANWR would destroy an otherwise pristine wilderness in exchange for just six months’ worth of oil. But such statements rely upon...
Some of NTV's leading anchors and some of their best and best-known journalists have left for a smaller station based in Moscow, but there they'll also live under the threat of having their broadcast license taken away. There seems to be little refuge for the survivors of...
What happened to the compassion that was supposed to go with Bush's conservatism? The campaign prepared us for some of this--candidate Bush made plain his intention to drill in the Arctic wildlife refuge, not a bad political calculus given America's preference for suvs over caribou. But no...
Across from the Seven Arches, five or six colored hens pick for corn, and a herd of sheep grazes among scarlet anemones. Hiba Gaith, an 11-year-old Palestinian girl who lives nearby, is singing a song she and her friends learned at school. She wears jeans, and her long...
It hasn't been a great couple of months for Washington's environmental lobby. Bush's new budget was delivered Monday; it cuts roughly $500 million from the EPA's coffers. In addition, the new administration has advocated oil exploration in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge, struck down newly enacted...